1 and 2 Sansome Place

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SO8555SW 620-1/13/490

WORCESTER SANSOME PLACE (East side) Nos.1 and 2

02/03/76

GV II

House and presbytery, 1851, J A Hansom. Numbered right to left, described left to right. Pinkish-red brick in Flemish bond with red brick window arches and stone architrave to entrance and hipped slate roofs, off-centre south brick ridge stack with oversailing course and pots and two truncated stacks and ridge stack with oversailing course and pots to north side. The houses are back to back; although with different storeys, their heights are the same.

North facade: three storeys, two first-floor windows. Ground and first floors have 2/2 horned sashes; second floor has 4/4 sashes, all in plain reveals and with sills and flat arches of gauged brick. Off-centre right entrance set back within segmental arch of gauged brick; 6-panel door, part-glazed, with two lower flush-beaded panels; three-pane overlight; panelled reveals.

South facade: two storeys, two first-floor windows. 6/6 sashes throughout. Entrance to right, steps to 6-panel door with lower flush-beaded panels, the upper panels raised and fielded, with overlight and in Doric architrave with pilasters, frieze and cornice.

Right return breaks orwards to right part and has 1:3 first-floor windows. To left part a 2/2 sash to ground floor; 8/8 sash to first floor; to second floor a 4/4 sash. Right part: plinth, three 6/6 sashes to ground and first floors. All windows in plain reveals and with sills and flat arches of gauged brick.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

No.1 is the presbytery to the adjacent Church of St George, Sansome Place (qv); also grouping with Pair of Lamp Standards to west of Church of St George and Nos 3-7 (consecutive) Sansome Place (qqv).